Re: debian image questions

2023-08-06 Thread Pirate Praveen
On ഞാ, ഓഗ 6 2023 at 08:42:21 രാവിലെ -04:00:00 -04:00:00, Bill Miller wrote: Just like that; When Apple makes a new OS or IOS I do not need to download anything. I go to update, it will ask me if i am sure i want to install a new OS. it warns me that all my stuff will be lost if i change

Re: Covering visa fees as part of flights+accommodation expenses for events

2022-06-27 Thread Pirate Praveen
On തി, ജൂൺ 27 2022 at 05:34:48 വൈകു +02:00:00 +02:00:00, Jonathan Carter wrote: Furthermore, visa requirements tend to affect people from less privileged countries the most. If we're serious about diversity, I think that we should include covering the visa fee if we offer

Re: History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes

2022-02-22 Thread Pirate Praveen
2022, ഫെബ്രുവരി 22 11:39:48 PM IST, Andrey Rahmatullin ൽ എഴുതി >On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 12:29:53PM -0500, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: >> Allow me, if you will, to talk a bit about something that's been on my mind >> a bit over the last handful of years in Debian. >I've heard a "we will discuss it

Re: Debian and fingerprint readers

2021-03-07 Thread Pirate Praveen
On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 11:57 am, Philip Hands wrote: Wouter Verhelst writes: On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 05:57:15PM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote: The parts of Debian that are trying to do that are some of the desktop environments. So, I'd approach the maintainers of Gnome and KDE and see

Re: Potential Summary: Keysigning in times of COVID-19

2020-08-13 Thread Pirate Praveen
On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 17:57, Adam Borowski wrote: I don't get where people get the feeling that producing a passport would require a TLA/nation state/organized crime/etc. You can get one for peanuts. I've been offered one once, and I inquired about the details -- for just ~$25

Re: [External] Re: ThinkPad laptops preinstalled Linux

2020-06-05 Thread Pirate Praveen
On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 9:13 am, Mark Pearson wrote: Hi Pirate On 6/5/2020 5:03 AM, Pirate Praveen wrote: Hi Mark, I also use a Thinkpad (X240) with Debian unstable, it mostly work except for some issues with touchpad and suspend (touchpad stops working after resuming from

RE: [External] Re: ThinkPad laptops preinstalled Linux

2020-06-05 Thread Pirate Praveen
On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 1:39 pm, Mark Pearson wrote: From my point of view what I've been trying to do is to get more involved so I can contribute/backport fixes directly. I get good insight into what issues impact our platforms and when fixes land upstream. It seems the best way to make

Re: alioth-lists and mailman3 (was Re: Discourse usability)

2020-04-20 Thread Pirate Praveen
On 2020, ഏപ്രിൽ 20 11:32:09 AM IST, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >On Du, 19 apr 20, 18:55:10, Alex Muntada wrote: >> Hi Andrei, >> >> > On Vi, 17 apr 20, 00:42:49, Abhijith PA wrote: >> > > >> > > I run a mailman3 instance with debian mailman3 package at >> > > lists.fsci.org.in for FSCI[1]. If

Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian

2020-04-13 Thread Pirate Praveen
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 6:39 pm, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: It's not clear to me why removing the -guest restriction has to happen for sso.d.o to be using Salsa as an IdP, which seems to be your primary goal? That's my most immediate concern. Switching to oauth2/OIDC seems like a good idea,

Re: Do we still value contributions?

2019-12-26 Thread Pirate Praveen
On വ്യാ, Dec 26, 2019 at 17:33, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Ninka, Licensecheck, and other related tools are tracked at https://wiki.debian.org/CopyrightReviewTools license-reconcile is my favorite from the list of tools mentioned there. Though it seems this tool is looking for maintainers.

Re: On a policy for non-debian foss content in a mini debconf

2014-09-08 Thread Pirate Praveen
On Monday 08 September 2014 08:47 AM, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Hi, Praveen and Shirish (and Indian Debian Users), Well, a DebConf is about Debian, and I mostly agree with Steve's answer: Not just any Linux conference should be called a DebConf or MiniDebConf. There has to be a Debian slant to the

Re: On a policy for non-debian foss content in a mini debconf

2014-09-08 Thread Pirate Praveen
On Monday 08 September 2014 05:13 PM, Pirate Praveen wrote: I'm also fine about creating a new brand which will have a clear definition it is an event to seek more contributions to debian by reaching out to more people and it is organized by debian in collaboration with a local free software

On a policy for non-debian foss content in a mini debconf

2014-09-06 Thread Pirate Praveen
Hi, There was recent discussions on debian-dug-in list [1][2] on the content of a mini debconf being planned in India during October 17 and 18. The event is being organized in an engineering college with a good track record of free software contributions [3]. I proposed a mini debconf in the